To:M. N. LYADOV

Written:Written September 1, 1904, in SwitzerlandPublished:First published in 1964 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 46.

      Sent to Geneva.

      Printed from a copy in an unknown handwriting.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,[1977],

      Moscow,Volume 43,

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Tothrow light on the
matter[1]I wish to add: 1) that the claim that Osipov “resigned at the
previous meeting” is anobvious lie, since Glebov,who was
present at this meeting, himselfsignedthe agreement of May
1904 referring to... members of the C.C., including Osipov.

2)Iwasneverofficially informed of Travinsky’s resignation.

[1]Areference to the “July Declaration” of the C.C. and the violation
of the decisions of the Second Congress of the R.S.D.L.P. by the
conciliators in the C.C.

The“July Declaration” was a resolution adopted by the
conciliators in the C.C., L. B. Krasin, V. A. Noskov and L. Y. Galperin, in
July 1904 without the knowledge of the two remaining members, Lenin and
Rozalia Zemlyachka, who were not given an opportunity to defend in the
C.C. the position of the Majority of the Party. In this resolution the
conciliators endorsed the Menshevik composition of the Editorial Board ofIskrawhich G. V. Plekhanov had co-opted, and co-opted into the
C.C. three other conciliators—A. I. Lyubimov, L. Y. Karpov and
I. F. Dubrovinsky. The conciliators opposed the convocation of theThird Congress of the Party and dissolved the Southern Bureau of the C.C.,
which was conducting agitation for the congress. They deprived Lenin of the
right to represent the C.C. abroad and prohibited the publication of his
writings without the collegial permission of the C.C.

LocalParty committees—in St. Petersburg, Moscow, Riga, Baku and
elsewhere—supported Lenin and strongly condemned the “July Declaration”
(see this volume, Document 85).